Chester
Chester is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 102 births. Its best rank was 53rd, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1020.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19203,698 births
- Best rank
- #53in 1919
- Since 1880
- 121,369people given the name
The story in the numbers
121,369 boys have been named Chester in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 3,698 births — 0.35% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 102 births in 2024, against 3,698 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 50 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chester | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,699 | |
| 1890s | 3,021 | |
| 1900s | 3,788 | |
| 1910s | 23,500 | |
| 1920s | 28,435 | |
| 1930s | 14,413 | |
| 1940s | 15,286 | |
| 1950s | 12,780 | |
| 1960s | 6,784 | |
| 1970s | 4,136 | |
| 1980s | 2,797 | |
| 1990s | 1,549 | |
| 2000s | 883 | |
| 2010s | 840 | |
| 2020s | 458 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Chester was the 55th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Chester
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bertrampeak 1923
- Clementpeak 1918
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Lambertpeak 1918
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Edmundpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.